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Review: Western Digital WD20FYPS 2TB SATA-II Hard Drive

This review covers the Western Digital RE4-GP drive, also known as the WD20FYPS 2TB SATA model.  Previous reviews: http://www.thestoragearchitect.com/2009/09/08/review-western-digital-wd20eads-2tb-sata-ii-hard-drive/ THw WD20FYPS is a 2TB SATA drive from Western Digital’s Enterprise Drive range. ...
February 12th, 2010 | Personal Computing | Read More

Personal Computing: Playing With Google Buzz

Personal Computing: Playing With Google Buzz
OK, I’ve succumb to the marketing and taken the plunge with Google’s latest offering; Buzz.  I was mighty disappointed with the Google OS and Google Wave, so my expectations of Buzz weren’t that high.  For the uninitiated and from what I’ve discerned so far, Buzz is targeting...
February 12th, 2010 | Featured, Personal Computing | Read More

Personal Computing: Can Drobo Dashboard Manage Multiple Drobos?

Personal Computing: Can Drobo Dashboard Manage Multiple Drobos?
This is a problem that’s been on my mind for some time; can the Drobo Dashboard see more than one device at the same time?  Well, it turns out the answer is yes. At first my thought was that it wasn’t possible for the Drobo Dashboard to manage more than one device.  Currently I have a...
January 5th, 2010 | Featured, GestaltIT, Personal Computing | Read More

Personal Computing: The End of The Parallel Interface

Personal Computing: The End of The Parallel Interface
This is the time of year I like to do a little early spring cleaning and one group of storage devices due a clean out are my old hard drives.  After many faithful years, I’m finally saying goodbye to all of my parallel ATA devices.  One the one hand, I hate throwing things out.  I like to use...
December 30th, 2009 | Featured, Personal Computing | Read More

Review: DroboPro – Part II

Review: DroboPro – Part II
This is the second in a series of posts looking at the DroboPro from Data Robotics Inc.  Previous post(s): Review: DroboPro – Part I Previously I discussed a few frustrations with connecting my new DroboPro to ESXi, the target environment for my new device.  I’ve now managed to get the...
December 7th, 2009 | Enterprise Computing, Featured, GestaltIT, Personal Computing | Read More

Review: DroboPro – Part I

My new DroboPro arrived this week and so far I’m less than impressed.  As you know, I already have had a generation 1 Drobo for some time.  It has been a great device, doing exactly what I wanted.  After winning a second standard Drobo at Tech Field Day, I paid for the upgrade to the DroboPro...
December 1st, 2009 | Enterprise Computing, GestaltIT, Personal Computing | Read More

Enterprise Computing: Is iSCSI The New Home Protocol?

I’d like to think I’ve visited a lot of customer sites over the years.  Admittedly most of these are “enterprise” class with multi-terabyte if not petabyte quantities of storage.  None of those customers have ever bothered deploying iSCSI as their storage protocol.  Invariably...
November 26th, 2009 | Enterprise Computing, GestaltIT, Personal Computing | Read More

Personal Computing: Drobo Replacement

Following on from my Personal Computing: Drobo Wierdness, I have received a replacement unit from Data Robotics.  I thought for a change I’d produce a video and so here is my attempt to swap out my drives into the new unit.  In the end I formatted the existing drives as four new NAS shares. ...
November 20th, 2009 | Personal Computing | Read More

GestaltIT Tech Field Day – Day 2: Ocarina, Nirvanix and Data Robotics

GestaltIT Tech Field Day – Day 2: Ocarina, Nirvanix and Data Robotics
Day 2 of the Tech Field Day kicked off with a trip to Ocarina Networks. For those who don’t know (a) Ocarina offer a “data reduction” appliance (b) an ocarina is a small oval, china flute. I say data reduction as the Ocarina appliance uses a variety of methods for reducing data...
November 16th, 2009 | Cloud computing, GestaltIT, Personal Computing | Read More

Personal Computing: Drobo Weirdness

Hmm, I’ve found a small bug with my Drobo which is making me slightly nervous.  Have a look at the first graphic.  I’ve exceeded a single 2TB logical drive in terms of capacity (as I now have two 2TB and two 1TB physical drives installed).  In this instance the Drobo has created me...
October 19th, 2009 | Personal Computing | Read More
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